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YOU Hyeonkyeong鈥檚 portraits are outcomes of such interactions. According to her, the intention was to paint the subjects as unaffected to any prejudice. Such intentions are clearly observable in her choice of formative style which changes by model. It is also clear when drawing the same person. YOU explains that facing what she did not wish to draw, the outcome of the relentless interactions drove her to draw. So, in a way, all character painting work would have been a process of acknowledging the other and accepting the fact that the other was a condition of the self's existence. Without this process, the artist will be unable to paint, and be no longer a painter metaphorically nor realistically. 

The solo exhibition at Gallery 2, there are no character paintings within the exhibition hall. Now it is our turn. Preparations are needed to accept the interaction between the self and the artist's works. YOU Hyeonkyeong spent most of 2014 in Z?rich and Ticino of Switzerland, as well as some months in London. Her paintings concentrated on landscape rather than characters. Her awareness that she was in an unfamiliar environment that was no longer Korea; her life was no longer defined by a singular place, and she began looking to her environment. She refers to that year as a time of 'pure drawing bliss'.